Security News > 2020 > April

This is all easier said than done and one of the biggest concerns that businesses have around their data is the quality - a fact confirmed by 1,900 people surveyed at the end of last year on the state of data quality. Over 60% of respondents indicated that too many data sources and inconsistent data was their top data quality worry.

In this podcast, Matt Johnson, Product Marketing Manager at TransUnion, talks about identity proofing and navigating identity during changing economic dynamics. By the end of this session, you'll have an understanding of how to formulate an appropriate identity proofing strategy to meet the needs of your customers and online channels.

While most people will say they are extremely concerned with their online privacy, previous experiments have shown that, in practice, users readily divulge privacy information online. A team of Penn State researchers identified a dozen subtle - but powerful - reasons that may shed light on why people talk a good game about privacy, but fail to follow up in real life.

The developers behind the Shade ransomware on Monday announced that they ceased operations and publicly released decryption keys to let their victims recover files for free. Now, the ransomware's authors say they actually stopped distributing the malware at the end of last year, and that they now decided to completely close shop and release over 750,000 decryption keys, along with their decryption utility.

64 percent of workers in the U.S. say their quality of work has improved amid the disruptive impact of COVID-19, according to KPMG. They also reported better collaboration and that their team has effectively adapted to working together during this time. "There is a mutual resiliency and commitment between organizations and their employees that's resulting in improved connectivity and productivity," according to Paul Lipinski, KPMG's Human Capital Advisory leader.

Cygilant, provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service to mid-sized organizations, launched Cygilant Endpoint Security, a new solution that will give companies greater visibility into suspicious activity taking place on network endpoints. Cygilant Endpoint Security is an agent-based solution that collects real-time security data from a company's critical assets, detects suspicious files, services and other activity - and then streams alerts to the 24×7 Cygilant Security Operations Center for further investigation and action.

The design of Australia's COVIDSafe contact-tracing app creates some unintended surveillance opportunities, according to a group of four security pros who unpacked its. The first-addressed is the decision to change UniqueIDs - the identifier the app shares with other users - once every two hours and for devices to only accept a new UniqueID if the app is running.

Virtustream, an enterprise-class cloud company and Dell Technologies business, announced new Managed Availability Services designed to deliver 99.95% availability for mission-critical SAP applications, giving peace of mind to enterprise customers who require the highest level of up-time for their applications. The new Managed Availability Services complement Virtustream's extensive xStreamCare services portfolio, extending its end-to-end support - from migration to management - for customers' SAP applications on the Virtustream cloud.

Zyxel Networks, a leader in delivering secure, AI- and cloud-powered home and business solutions, announced it has partnered with McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, to offer customers an integrated, one-box security solution designed specifically for small- to medium-sized businesses. The integration of McAfee's anti-malware solution into Zyxel's high-end ATP firewall family will provide SMBs with best-of-breed malware detection, security performance, and advanced web filtering within a single firewall device.

Microsoft has patched a worm-like vulnerability in its Teams workplace video chat and collaboration platform that could have allowed attackers to take over an organization's entire roster of Teams accounts just by sending participants a malicious link to an innocent-looking image. "Eventually, the attacker could access all the data from your organization's Teams accounts - gathering confidential information, meetings and calendar information, competitive data, secrets, passwords, private information, business plans, etc."